THE MAG Z890 TOMAHAWK WIFI

The MAG Z890 Tomahawk WiFi is an ATX sized motherboard with black, silver and green as the main colors.

MSI has used medium-sized heatsinks for the MOSFET/VRMs.

The four UDIMM DDR5 slots support up to a total of 256GB with a max speed of 9200MHz (MT/s) and are also compatible with the new CUDIMM modules.

Aside the 24pin motherboard power port the board also has two 8-pin power ports.

One of the things I like about the MAG Z890 Tomahawk WiFi is the push to release button for the primary PCIe 5.0 x16 slot.

Four SATA III/6G ports should be plenty nowadays (at least for most people).

Three full sized x16 slots (1x5.0/2x4.0) is something we don't see a lot.

The PCIe power pot at the lower end of the motherboard provides extra juice for the x16 slots.

Another interesting feature is the push to release heatsinks for the M.2 ports.

Two M.2 heatsinks out of the three have that feature as seen above.

At the rear I/O we find an HDMI v2.1 port, 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports (USB-C), 3 USB-A 10Gbps ports, USB-C 10Gbps port, 4 USB-A 5Gbps ports, flash BIOS and clear CMOS buttons, RJ45 5G port, two Wi-Fi 7 antennas, microphone in, speakers out and SPDIF out.

As expected for a MAG model there's no backplate on the other side of the PCB.

For my Z890 motherboard reviews I'll be using the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU.